"From Times Square to Timbuktu:
Traveling the World"
by: Michael Modzelewski

As a journalist, Michael Modzelewski has specialized in adventure travel, leaving the comfortable and familiar behind to investigate the offbeat and unusual in exotic locales. His assignments have led him into areas of soul-soaring scenic splendor, including many of the "Natural Wonders of the World." Far off the beaten path, Michael has lived with vanishing aboriginal peoples such as the Lapps, "Europe's Indians" and reindeer herders high above the Arctic Circle; he's accompanied Maasai warriors on a photographic lion hunt deep into the heart of Africa; and studied with Warao Indian shamans who revealed the wondrous secrets of the Amazon jungle.

In this awe-inspiring tour, Michael also treats travel, itself, as a theme -- the metaphysical journey in which we are all daily participants. The program concludes close to home, with the ultimate test of running an ultra-marathon -- a 100-mile continuous footrace through the mountain wilderness of California, where he discovers "gold" both in the hills and within himself.

Illustrated with one hundred spectacular slides, Michael's speech provides an entertaining and inspiring global tour de force, revealing the vast diversity of nature and the unified harmony of the human spirit.